Is Social Bookmarking worth the effort?

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I think it is worth it, especially for the top bookmarking sites.

I don't think you have to over do it. Even 10 or 20 links a week can make some difference.

Doing nothing else to a new mini-site a couple of weeks ago, it got indexed quickly and is on page 2 for a nice keyword phrase. It already brings in about 60 visitors a day.

This was done manually, not using automated software. It took a few hours to get about 30 links.

Whether a software version is better I don't know.

As part of the marketing mix, bookmarking is just one ingredient. It isn't vital, but it adds to the pie.

You can outsource someone to do this type of work if you don't like it or don't know. Outsourcing is great and it doesn't cost you a lot.

SB usually helps bringing in fresh visitors to the website.
Creating repeat visitors should also be the focus of the marketing campaign.

great info. i was considering bookmarking my site after seeing everyone's results im starting now lol.

People familiar with this kind of bookmarking will be the first to admit you'd be hard pressed to find too many disadvantages of social bookmarking. Anything that's as easy, fun and convenient as social bookmarking has to be good.

Social bookmarking is extremely useful in educational purposes. Instructors and professors are able to save and share research links and study guides with their colleagues as well as with the students. If a teacher finds some research material that they find extremely helpful and informative, they can share it with other teachers by adding it on the social bookmarking site with appropriate tag or keywords.

There are many opportunities to make new friends. Most of us have specific interests in life and social bookmarking sites are a good place to find others that share your interests. If you find articles or websites that interest you and the same user repeatedly submits them, you can check out the user's profile and add them as a friend. Many new relationships, personal and business, have started through this new way of communication.

Definitely worth it for me - especially when people find my sites through the social bookmarking sites and forward them to their friends

It doesn't have to be super time-consuming. Get a cheap piece of software (I'm partial to Incansoft) or sign up for Onlywire - heck, even outsourcing htis stuff is pretty cheap - I think you'll find the results worth the minimum amount of effort needed.

I am a big fan and have had good results with Bookmarking Demon. I highly recommend it.

It's Worth The Effort Especially With WPress Sites Using onlywire dot com saves you loads of time.

Read somewhere else in this site that Google has all but admitted that social bookmarking will play an increasingly important role in rankings. So yes, it is important is will continue to become even more critical.

Done in conjunction with other backlink link building methods it's very definitely worth it.

If it's all you do you may as well not do it at all as building backlinks is one of those synergy things.

Social Bookmarking is one way to create backlink at the same time a good source of traffic. Thus I seen nothing wrong on using bookmarking on my campaign it helps a lot onto my site.

yes social bookmarking is a good way to promote your website. they are very helpful in keeping traffic and building back links.